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OUT: Doomscrolling I dread to think of the number of hours I wasted scrolling on Instagram in 2025. I’ve much better things to do in 2026, although I ... Read more »

Stack Obviously, I love magazines, so being sent a different independent magazine every month is like heaven to me. But a Stack subscription would also ap... Read more »

As much as I enjoy The Skinny's annual film of the year list, created by aggregating our film writers' individual top ten ballots to find our collective favo... Read more »

Thomas Atkinson 1. Transit (Christian Petzold) 2. Atlantics (Mati Diop) 3. Homecoming (Beyoncé) 4. The Irishman (Martin Scorsese) 5. High Life (Clair... Read more »

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You've probably read The Skinny's Top 25 Films of 2018 list, but our Film team is a broad church. Phantom Thread, The Skinny's Film of 2018, was ubiquitous o... Read more »

In our 2021 film of the Year poll, the Skinny’s Film Team collectively voted Céline Sciamma’s beguiling fairytale Petite Maman top of... Read more »

Collectively, our Film team voted Aftersun the film of the year. You can read a rundown of our full top ten here. If you’re looking for more idiosyncra... Read more »

30. Zombi Child Dir. Bertrand Bonello After the frustrations of Bertrand Bonello’s blithe attitude towards pretty compelling ideas in 2016&rsq... Read more »

30. Blue Valentine (2010) Dir. Derek Cianfrance Back in 2010, Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams finally shook off any lingering connections with their tee... Read more »

25. Paddington 2 Dir. Paul King Once again Paul King marries Michael Bond’s genteel charms with his own hugely imaginative visual style to create a... Read more »

It’s half an hour before Jamie Thraves’ third feature film, Treacle Jr., is to make its Scottish debut at the 2011 Glasgow Film Festival and I st... Read more »

  Davy Mitchell (Geraghty) is an aspiring writer embarking, with sleazy brother Sean (O’Neill) in tow, on a self-financed “book tour”... Read more »

The festival looks to have expanded from last year, with even more films in competition – are you finding it easier to get good quality shorts as the f... Read more »

John and Lara Brennan (Russell Crowe and Elizabeth Banks) are a white collar couple who enjoy argumentative flirting and the odd quickie in the back seat of ... Read more »

Perhaps my favourite moment in all of cinema is the one in Annie Hall where Woody Allen’s Alvy Singer takes on a pretentious blow-hard who’s loud... Read more »

Attack the Block opens on a scene as prosaic as any social realist film, with a gang of hoodies (the kind of kids that give Daily Mail readers palpitations) ... Read more »

Last year mumblecore went mainstream. This ethereal, unfortunately named genre is no longer ghettoised to hip indie film festivals SXSW and Sundance. For the... Read more »

Some documentarians like to get in front of the camera, where they become the heroic protagonist, hunting down crooked CEOs or corrupt politicians. Others ar... Read more »

Critics love to give films labels – I apologise on behalf of my reductive brethren – but more often than not these categorisations can be on-the-... Read more »

Ever since D.A. Pennebaker’s landmark documentary Don't Look Back, where the sardonic backstage antics of a young Bob Dylan proved as entertaining... Read more »

Last night saw the launch of Glasgow Film Festival’s 2012 programme – it’s bigger, bolder and busier than ever. But before you take a highl... Read more »

The headline movie for June is Prometheus. I’ve been cool on the prospect of the Alien prequel, primarily because the last time Ridley Scott made a gre... Read more »

Two marvellous comedies are released in April: Aki Kaurismäki’s Le Havre (6 Apr) and Whit Stillman’s Damsels in Distress (27 Apr). Film... Read more »

The title of Frontier(s) director Xavier Gens’ latest film, The Divide, describes exactly what the film does to its audiences. Before its UK premiere a... Read more »

Double Take For film fans, there’s nothing more indulgent than a double bill. Okay, apart from maybe a triple or quadruple bill. Sadly, though, specia... Read more »

The central character in Berberian Sound Studio, Peter Strickland’s 1970s-set sophomore feature, is Gilderoy, a crumpled English sound engineer pl... Read more »

So it turned out that the 66th Edinburgh International Film Festival was rather good. The successes were many: a consistently strong programme of new films, ... Read more »

Picture the scene. It’s Christmas Eve. A fresh dusting of snow has turned the quaint, picket fence-lined streets of Kingston Falls into a living snowgl... Read more »

While scanning the programme of flicks in the upcoming Glasgay! festival, two categories draw they eye: the high profile art-house darlings that have broken ... Read more »